Port-a-john suspect gets probation in sex case

ADRIAN — A Manitou Beach man convicted last year of assaulting a woman in a portable toilet was sentenced to probation Wednesday under a plea bargain resolving three other sexual assault cases.

Andrew Lee Jordan, 54, said nothing during his sentencing before Lenawee County Circuit Judge Margaret M.S. Noe. He pleaded guilty in November to a single reduced count of felonious assault in an agreement that he not receive jail time.

The plea bargain brought an end to a prosecution that began shortly after the May 2010 portable toilet assault and later grew to include three other cases of alleged home invasions and sexual assaults dating back as far as 2002.

“It would appear, Mr. Jordan, that this is the conclusion of a very long and laborious procedure in your life,” Noe said at Wednesday’s sentencing.

Noe said she does not know if all the allegations brought against Jordan are true.

“I would hope that you will stay so far from the fire,” she told him, that he will not risk getting burned in the future.

She ordered Jordan not to have any contact with the three women who accused him of assaults. The former co-owner of the Highland Inn at Manitou Beach was also ordered to stay away from alcohol during his five years of probation. He was ordered to pay $1,250 court costs.

Jordan served a 45-day jail term last year after a jury found him guilty of a reduced misdemeanor charge in the portable toilet assault case. A woman accused him of attempting to force her to have sex in the toilet during an event at the Ghost Riders motorcycle club grounds in Rollin Township in 2010. Jordan admitted asking for sex but denied using force.

He admitted using his fist in an assault on another woman in 2008 when he pleaded guilty in November. He said he intended to hit the woman during the incident in which he entered her home without permission and touched her buttocks. He was originally charged with first-degree home invasion and first-degree criminal sexual conduct in that case. Those charges carry maximum 20-year and life prison terms.